In the emotive clip, Sharron Huddleston recalls how her 18-year-old child was killed in a crash which, she argues, could have been avoided. Her daughter, Caitlin, had been in the car with a friend, who had only recently passed her driving test, when the driver lost control of the vehicle at a bend in the road, on the A595 in Cumbria.
This week, the AA backed the group’s call for Graduated Driving Licences, as part of its 2024 motoring manifesto, which states that there should be ‘no peer passengers for six months once they have passed their test” - similar to schemes in America, New Zealand and Sweden. Edmund King OBE, AA President said: “20% of young drivers crash in their first year and up to 1500 are killed or seriously injured each year.